Pamela Meyer Quotes

We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.

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• Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Win

• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Actress

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Records
  • Sounds

• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  

  Sai Baba
  • Water
  • Sun
  • Sky

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Act

• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Prayer
  • Sand

• Men create the gods in their own image.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Create
  • Own

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Pleasure
  • Oneself

• Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Think
  • Morning
  • Laugh

• Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Spirit
  • Humor
  • Wit

• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Son

• The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

  

  Edward Lear
  • Up
  • Money
  • Beautiful

• Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Mistake

• We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women